Langdon Cheves

Langdon Cheves (17 September 1776-26 June 1857) was a member of the US House of Representatives (DR-SC 1) from 31 December 1810 to 3 March 1815, succeeding Robert Marion and preceding Henry Middleton.

Biography
Langdon Cheves was born in Bull Town Fort, South Carolina in 1776, and he became a mercantile clerk in Charleston and then a lawyer in 1797. He went on to serve as Attorney General of South Carolina from 1808 to 1810, a member of the US House of Representatives from 1810 to 1815 (serving as Speaker from 1814 to 1815), and as President of the Second Bank of the United States from 6 March 1819 to 6 January 1823, settling in Philadelphia and then Lancaster before returning to South Carolina in 1829. In 1850, he declined appointment to the US Senate following John C. Calhoun's death, and he was strongly in favor of Southern secession. He died in Columbia in 1857.